The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1887-08-05
OF INTEREST TO FARMERS.
The Dairy.

are in demand for export to the cunti-
nent of Europe. There seems to be
less of this poor butter made than for
merly. Low prices in the worlds
market stimulate consumption and
help to absorb the present liberal pro-
dnction of the various dairying coun-
tries.
Milk cannot be made from nothing.
If the material for its manufacture be
not found In the food it will be taken
from the accumulated flesh of the
body, and If no surplus flesh has been
accumulated the secretion of milk will
either cease or the materials be drawn
from the muscles and tissues which are
otherwise needed for the maintenance
of health and strength.
Grass and green crops are succulent
and digestible, but they contain large
quantity of water and are deficient In
the fat and proteine, or albuminoid
matter, needed for the most profitable
ryman should feed corn meal or cotton
seed meal, with bran and middlings,
with the green fodder, but the guam
tity to be used, and the kinds OF these
foods, must be determined by careful
experiment, the results of which are
TO be noted day by day for sufficient
time TO found a rule upon,
Acid is the most treaeherous and eff
fective agent of change In milk, cream
and butter. 1t should be watched for
at every turn and neutrali2ed by ev-
cry possible means. The addition TO
the milk of Il small quantity of soda
will take up the acid as fast rs il is
formed, and will remain rs lactate of
soda in the milk in an inert and harm
less condition; but to avoid the pres
ence of this acid the food and every
utensil used in the stable, feeding pro-
cess, and in the care of the milk should
be kept most rigidly free from acidity.
| Milk that is cooled to low tempera-
ture will sour very rapidly when the
| temperature is raised again. This is n
well known characteristic of milk and
all other nitrogenous bodies. Meat
/ that Is kept for n time in Il refrigerator
Will very quickly spoil when taken out,
and milk has the same peculiarity. 1t
/ is Supposed that the cold breaks up
the atoms of milk sugar, which change
to lactie acid by n Encouragement of the
atoms without any fermentation.
/ Milk should be cooled moderately and
not lower than 90 or 5o degrees.
Russian dairy products have made
their appearance in the English mar
/ ket, and that the prospects are favora-
4 BILE for large and increasing trade in
i butter and cheese with Russia. There
/ are fine dairy sections in the Baltic
provinces, heretofore neglected, which
can be turned TO good account now
that a profitable foreign outlet Is pre-
sented. This supply may not affect
the prices much this season, but it
/ Is likely to in the near future. These
facts 60 to show that the interest of the
American dairyman lies in the judi
cious development of our home mar
/ kets.
! Dairying will pay in the long run, ii
/ it is intelligently managed. There is
no business that promises better for
/ there is none for whose products there
I is more universal demand; and the
more of good butter we have the better
il will pay. 1t is not because the mar
ket is oyerstocked with good butter
/ that prices are now low, but low prices
come from the tons of poor butter that
are thrown upon the market. This
poor butter is sold to the country dea-
Ter at about the price of grease, but lit
tie more.
Sheep Fold.
Although the Merino is a small sheep
an advantage possessed by the breed is
that large number can be kept togeth.
+ er in one flock more easily than can be
&
1 The heaviest lamb ever raised i'm the
/ United States, an Oxford, which attain.
ed 100 pounds in nine months, was fed
all the ground oats, in addition to il:
mothers milk, it could eat. A twin
sister reached 81 pounds in the same
/ period.
In their native hills il is said that
I the Cheviot sheep are excelled by none
They are as large rs the Cotswolds
while the mutton is considered better
and the fleece finer and closer. Or
good pasture the fleece grows finer and
sells for higher price than when the
animals are fed on coarse grass.
After shearing, ticks will emigrat,
from the shorn sheep TO the lambs
then is the time to drive the ticks out
of the fiocks. Watch the lambs, says
/ Farm and Home, and when the ticks
have colonized then dip in tobacco
/ water. Twelve to fifteen pounds refuse
tobacco boiled in gallon or two of wat
er, then diluted to make one barrel, viii
do for 100 lambs.
/ It is an easy matter to stunt the
growth of the wool of the sheep and
the lambs, and stunted growth is
never desirable in anything. The
LONGER we farm the more thoroughly
satisfied do we become that it pays t.
keep stock growing steadily all the time
just the same as a crop, and that any
failure to do this a failure TO secure al
much profit as we could.
The simultaneous development of the
bone, wool, fat and muscle in the sys
tenn of the sheep requires a wide diver
sity of elements in the food. 1t would
be impossible. for instance, to get ewes
to thrive well on diet of corn alone
they would grow too fat and woulC
amount to nothing. Variety is absolu
tely essential
Poultry Yard.
During the warm days, when bowe
diseases are liable to occur, a teaspoon
full of red pepper in the soft food of 2
hens will be found not only an excel
lent preventive of such difficulties bu
|. also stimulant and invigorator. Civ,
it trial, as it i cheap.
No towels should be permitted t,
roost on the rims of the nest boxes, o
remain on the nest at night. To pre-
vent this, drive row of tacks on tn
rims so as to render it painful to the fee
should the birds attempt it. Roostinj
OH the nests makes them soon filth,
!. and invites lice to take possession.
You cannot become entirely free iron
the pests of lice in your poultry-house
You can get rid of the pests, but TIL
work of keeping them out must go on
When you cease operations they return
1t is not necessary to. go to extremes eS
cept to get them out, but care must b
taken when once lice are driven on
that the quarters will not be very in
vitiBg for their return. Once wee
l.